LISTEN: Duke Dumont – Hold On ft. MNEK

Life has gotten a little bit crazy for the previously underground and almost forgotten about UK DJ and producer Duke Dumont over the past eighteen months. After taking a short hiatus from club land, burrowing himself away from the world in his countryside studio a couple of years ago the man was hard a work, forging a new and varied house sound.

Early last year he hit us with his first original productions for almost four years, his For Club Play Only Pt. I EP including the underground hit, Street Walker, which reminded everyone why he’s a force to be reckoned with. Then. at the end of the summer he struck again with Part II in the series, and whilst the lead track got people’s attention featuring Extra Curricular, it was the B-side, The Giver which found its way into DJ sets across all underground genres and propelled his sound to new audiences.

At the start of 2013 he launched his new label Blasé Boys Club, with a first single featuring A*M*E and MNEK titled Need U, out exclusively via Beatport. At the same time he caught the ear of Annie Mac, who put him forward for a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.
In the weeks that followed the single was pulled from its scheduled release on all other digital stores and snapped up for a release on Ministry of Sound.

He shot straight to the top of the UK charts in the first week of release a couple of months later and the rest they say, is history.

The partnership built working on Need U, lead the pair to experiment in the studio again with his latest single Hold On, which was released last month. A fiery house ballad that even Robert Owens would be proud of.

Duke Dumont will be joining us for the start of our 15th Birthday celebrations at Space Ibiza on Sunday, alongside Leon Vynehall, Kiwi and the Transmission Collective on the Sunset Terrace.